Judith Gruber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4005626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Gruber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Gruber |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4277-0586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Non/Performativity of Synodality
This article uses Sara Ahmed’s notion of nonperformativity to analyse the rhetoric and practice of 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality of the Roman Catholic Church. The Synod presented clericalism and synodality as two opposing paradigms and framed them in terms of a linear progress. The article interrogates the effects of this rhetoric in three vignettes based on central metaphors in syondal documents. It is primarily interested not in what synodality…
Beyond Innocence, Towards Ambiguity
This article offers a critical-constructive intervention into current theological engagements with Christianity’s entanglement in colonialism. While much scholarship has critically examined theology’s historical complicity in empire, it often begins from normative assumptions of theology’s inherent liberative nature, framing colonial expressions as distortions of an ‘authentic’ Christianity. In contrast, this article argues for a theological meth…
Dis/closures of positionality
This article argues that researchers should consider positionality not as a one-time declaration of social identity, but as an ongoing practice of epistemic suspicion that reveals how our knowledge is shaped not only by who we are, but also by the historically sedimented structures that make us intelligible as ‘knowers’ in the first place. We bring empirical material collected in an ethnographic study on race, (in)equality, and discrimination int…
Handbuch Interkulturelle Theologie
The Theo-Politics of Ritual
Both sociology of religion and statistical bodies within the Catholic Church approach the question of church membership in similar ways: they take participation in religious ritual as a benchmark of affiliation to a religious community. What seems to be a straightforward criterion for measuring membership actually speaks to a complex interplay in the constitution of political and cosmological order: the constitution of social order through practi…
Move past adversity or bite through it? Diet quality, physical activity, and sedentary behavior in relation to resilience
Adverse life experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental disorders. The successful adaptation to adversity and maintenance or quick restoration of mental health despite adversity is referred to as resilience. Identifying factors that promote resilience can contribute to the prevention of mental disorders. Lifestyle behaviors, increasingly recognized for their impact on mental health, are discussed as potential resilience factors. …
Doing Climate Justice
The struggle against the climate crisis and for a livable future on earth raises profound questions of justice that call for theological engagement. Anchored in concrete situations of climate vulnerability and responsibility, this volume investigates the theological epistemologies, practices and imaginaries that have profoundly shaped climate politics in the past and explores possible theological reformulations that can open up sustainable and ju…
African Theologies
.
White Innocence / White Supremacy
This article starts from the observation that current debates about race and racism are often couched in soteriological terms such as guilt and forgiveness, or confession and exoneration, and it argues that this overlap calls for theological analysis. Using the debate about Achille Mbembe’s disinvitation from the German art festival ‘Ruhrtriennale’ 2020 as a case that is typical of a specifically Western European discourse on race, it first sketc…
Ghost Stories
A crucial issue in methodological reflections on African theologies is the question how we can define “African” identity. Since Contextual Theologies first emerged in the early 1970s, it has become clear that the search for cultural identity cannot be pursued independently from the legacies of colonial power/knowledge regimes that continue to shape imaginations of Africa. Starting from a case study of the post/colonial relationship between Belgiu…
Salvation in a Wounded World. Towards a Spectral Theology of Mission
This article argues that there is a growing discrepancy between theological and critical approaches to mission: while critical mission studies have abandoned teleological frameworks for the narration of mission history, historico-theological teleologies still prove to be influential in theological conceptualizations of mission. As a result, there is a lack of theological language that can respond constructively to the interdisciplinary re-reading…
Can Women in Interreligious Dialogue Speak? Productions of In/Visibility at the Intersection of Religion, Gender, and Race
Echoing Gayatri Spivak's seminal essay, Gruber asks, Can women in interreligious dialogue speak? She develops an answer through an analysis of Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's film Submission and Candice Breitz's video installation Love Story. Both of these works of art raise questions of representation and agency for marginalized people, and by bringing these questions into conversation with theoretical reflections about women in inter-religi…
The Rediscovery of Municipal Officials
Controlling Bureaucracies
Can we empower others? The paradox of empowerment in the governing of an alternative public school
Reflections on Value
Using knowledge for control in fragmented policy arenas
Analysts and researchers typically value knowledge for its contributions to the wisdom of policy action. Policymakers, however, typically value knowledge for its contributions to the exercise of political control. Our research on flows of knowledge among federal, state, and local education agencies documents how knowledge may increase the effectiveness of various control strategies. In these cases, knowledge is not intended to enhance rationality…
Using Knowledge for Control in Fragmented Policy Arenas
Can we empower others? The paradox of empowerment in the governing of an alternative public school
Using Knowledge for Control in Fragmented Policy Arenas
Using knowledge for control in fragmented policy arenas
Analysts and researchers typically value knowledge for its contributions to the wisdom of policy action. Policymakers, however, typically value knowledge for its contributions to the exercise of political control. Our research on flows of knowledge among federal, state, and local education agencies documents how knowledge may increase the effectiveness of various control strategies. In these cases, knowledge is not intended to enhance rationality…
Reflections on Value
Dis/closures of positionality
This article argues that researchers should consider positionality not as a one-time declaration of social identity, but as an ongoing practice of epistemic suspicion that reveals how our knowledge is shaped not only by who we are, but also by the historically sedimented structures that make us intelligible as ‘knowers’ in the first place. We bring empirical material collected in an ethnographic study on race, (in)equality, and discrimination int…
Salvation in a Wounded World. Towards a Spectral Theology of Mission
This article argues that there is a growing discrepancy between theological and critical approaches to mission: while critical mission studies have abandoned teleological frameworks for the narration of mission history, historico-theological teleologies still prove to be influential in theological conceptualizations of mission. As a result, there is a lack of theological language that can respond constructively to the interdisciplinary re-reading…
Can Women in Interreligious Dialogue Speak? Productions of In/Visibility at the Intersection of Religion, Gender, and Race
Echoing Gayatri Spivak's seminal essay, Gruber asks, Can women in interreligious dialogue speak? She develops an answer through an analysis of Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's film Submission and Candice Breitz's video installation Love Story. Both of these works of art raise questions of representation and agency for marginalized people, and by bringing these questions into conversation with theoretical reflections about women in inter-religi…
Using knowledge for control in fragmented policy arenas
Analysts and researchers typically value knowledge for its contributions to the wisdom of policy action. Policymakers, however, typically value knowledge for its contributions to the exercise of political control. Our research on flows of knowledge among federal, state, and local education agencies documents how knowledge may increase the effectiveness of various control strategies. In these cases, knowledge is not intended to enhance rationality…
Using Knowledge for Control in Fragmented Policy Arenas
Reflections on Value
Controlling Bureaucracies
Can we empower others? The paradox of empowerment in the governing of an alternative public school
The Rediscovery of Municipal Officials
Salvation in a Wounded World. Towards a Spectral Theology of Mission
This article argues that there is a growing discrepancy between theological and critical approaches to mission: while critical mission studies have abandoned teleological frameworks for the narration of mission history, historico-theological teleologies still prove to be influential in theological conceptualizations of mission. As a result, there is a lack of theological language that can respond constructively to the interdisciplinary re-reading…
Can Women in Interreligious Dialogue Speak? Productions of In/Visibility at the Intersection of Religion, Gender, and Race
Echoing Gayatri Spivak's seminal essay, Gruber asks, Can women in interreligious dialogue speak? She develops an answer through an analysis of Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's film Submission and Candice Breitz's video installation Love Story. Both of these works of art raise questions of representation and agency for marginalized people, and by bringing these questions into conversation with theoretical reflections about women in inter-religi…
African Theologies
.
White Innocence / White Supremacy
This article starts from the observation that current debates about race and racism are often couched in soteriological terms such as guilt and forgiveness, or confession and exoneration, and it argues that this overlap calls for theological analysis. Using the debate about Achille Mbembe’s disinvitation from the German art festival ‘Ruhrtriennale’ 2020 as a case that is typical of a specifically Western European discourse on race, it first sketc…
Ghost Stories
A crucial issue in methodological reflections on African theologies is the question how we can define “African” identity. Since Contextual Theologies first emerged in the early 1970s, it has become clear that the search for cultural identity cannot be pursued independently from the legacies of colonial power/knowledge regimes that continue to shape imaginations of Africa. Starting from a case study of the post/colonial relationship between Belgiu…
Doing Climate Justice
The struggle against the climate crisis and for a livable future on earth raises profound questions of justice that call for theological engagement. Anchored in concrete situations of climate vulnerability and responsibility, this volume investigates the theological epistemologies, practices and imaginaries that have profoundly shaped climate politics in the past and explores possible theological reformulations that can open up sustainable and ju…
Handbuch Interkulturelle Theologie
The Theo-Politics of Ritual
Both sociology of religion and statistical bodies within the Catholic Church approach the question of church membership in similar ways: they take participation in religious ritual as a benchmark of affiliation to a religious community. What seems to be a straightforward criterion for measuring membership actually speaks to a complex interplay in the constitution of political and cosmological order: the constitution of social order through practi…
Move past adversity or bite through it? Diet quality, physical activity, and sedentary behavior in relation to resilience
Adverse life experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental disorders. The successful adaptation to adversity and maintenance or quick restoration of mental health despite adversity is referred to as resilience. Identifying factors that promote resilience can contribute to the prevention of mental disorders. Lifestyle behaviors, increasingly recognized for their impact on mental health, are discussed as potential resilience factors. …
Dis/closures of positionality
This article argues that researchers should consider positionality not as a one-time declaration of social identity, but as an ongoing practice of epistemic suspicion that reveals how our knowledge is shaped not only by who we are, but also by the historically sedimented structures that make us intelligible as ‘knowers’ in the first place. We bring empirical material collected in an ethnographic study on race, (in)equality, and discrimination int…
The Non/Performativity of Synodality
This article uses Sara Ahmed’s notion of nonperformativity to analyse the rhetoric and practice of 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality of the Roman Catholic Church. The Synod presented clericalism and synodality as two opposing paradigms and framed them in terms of a linear progress. The article interrogates the effects of this rhetoric in three vignettes based on central metaphors in syondal documents. It is primarily interested not in what synodality…
Beyond Innocence, Towards Ambiguity
This article offers a critical-constructive intervention into current theological engagements with Christianity’s entanglement in colonialism. While much scholarship has critically examined theology’s historical complicity in empire, it often begins from normative assumptions of theology’s inherent liberative nature, framing colonial expressions as distortions of an ‘authentic’ Christianity. In contrast, this article argues for a theological meth…
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